Home Taiji Alternative LISA-TAIJI networks: Detectability of parity violation in stochastic gravitational wave background. Chen J, Liu C, Zhang Y L, et al.PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2025, 111(8): 084026
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Alternative LISA-TAIJI networks: Detectability of parity violation in stochastic gravitational wave background. Chen J, Liu C, Zhang Y L, et al.PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2025, 111(8): 084026

by admin - Mar 24, 2026

The detection of parity violation in the isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) will serve a crucial probe for new physics, particularly in parity-violating theories of gravity. The joint observations by the planned space-borne gravitational wave detectors, LISA and TAIJI, will offer a unique opportunity to observe such effects in the millihertz (mHz) band. This study evaluates the detectability of parity violation in the SGWB using two network configurations: LISA-TAIJIp and LISA-TAIJIm. The former configuration consists of LISA (inclined at +6⁢0° relative to the ecliptic plane) and TAIJIp (also inclined at +6⁢0°), while the latter network pairs LISA with TAIJIm (inclined at −6⁢0°). Our analysis demonstrates that the sensitivity of the LISA-TAIJIm network to parity violation in the SGWB is approximately one order of magnitude greater than that of the LISA-TAIJIp network at lower frequencies. To quantify the performance of the two networks, we evaluate the signal-to-noise ratios for different spectral shapes, including power-law, single-peak, and broken power-law models, and estimate parameter determination using the Fisher information matrix. The results confirm that LISA-TAIJIm outperforms LISA-TAIJIp in detecting the SGWB with circular polarization components, offering a superior opportunity to test parity-violating gravitational constraints on various mechanisms in the mHz band.